One good thing about the IT Industry? You are constantly learning. Technology is constantly evolving so what I know now will change tomorrow. This means you are constantly learning new technology, methods and software. So in that way. I've never stopped studying. However I very well knew that is only a small part of a full college curriculum. Going from learning one subject to many would be an adjustment.
I chose Biology as my major because it seemed logical, since the major fulfilled most of my prerequ's for medical school. Biology and many standard science classes are not only required, if you receive anything less than a B, you might as well not even apply to med school.
What I wasn't expecting is how much more advanced Biology we'd be hitting at the get go. The classes were taught mainly by people who had PhD's in molecular biology. The first week, I had to know a good deal of Chemistry. The problem? Our High School Chemistry class was taught by a woman who had previously taught college level and she was not prepared to teach at a High School level. The kids who didn't drop the Chemistry course, the ones that remained had an incredibly high failure rate (I was told 80-90%). The school in response terminated the teacher and expunged our grades. We however, had never learned a blessed thing about Chemistry in the meantime.
But since it was a requirement, I had no choice but to push forward. I worked on any possible angle I could to get an edge but despite doing well in all of my other classes, Biology was still a problem.
I chose Biology as my major because it seemed logical, since the major fulfilled most of my prerequ's for medical school. Biology and many standard science classes are not only required, if you receive anything less than a B, you might as well not even apply to med school.
What I wasn't expecting is how much more advanced Biology we'd be hitting at the get go. The classes were taught mainly by people who had PhD's in molecular biology. The first week, I had to know a good deal of Chemistry. The problem? Our High School Chemistry class was taught by a woman who had previously taught college level and she was not prepared to teach at a High School level. The kids who didn't drop the Chemistry course, the ones that remained had an incredibly high failure rate (I was told 80-90%). The school in response terminated the teacher and expunged our grades. We however, had never learned a blessed thing about Chemistry in the meantime.
But since it was a requirement, I had no choice but to push forward. I worked on any possible angle I could to get an edge but despite doing well in all of my other classes, Biology was still a problem.